awaken
verb (used with or without object)
to awake; waken.
awakener
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a word derived from
awaken.
Example Sentences
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It can serve both as an awakener and a test of intelligence, predispose the heart against vice, and turn the springs of character toward virtue.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
He stood as a figure of benignant humanity, of lavish sympathy with every earthly affliction, he became a guide and mentor,2 an awakener and consoler, and probably more than all, a sanction for emotional expression.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
He is the revealer and the awakener of these influences.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
Nothing could have been a more effective awakener.
From The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Another over-watchful Newbury "awakener" rapped on the head a nodding man who protested indignantly that he was wide-awake, and was only bowing in solemn assent and approval of the minister's arguments.
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
